The closest community to the West Texas resort where Justice Antonin Scalia died is barely even a place anymore: It is a virtual ghost town where perhaps only a dozen people still live. And when a silver hearse drove across the rocks outside the Cibolo Creek Ranch on Saturday, it was from a funeral home at least an hour away.

“People go there with great confidentiality, I think,” said Teresa Todd, the city attorney for Marfa, more than 30 miles from the ranch. “People go there, and you’re not bothered.”

For years, public figures, including Justice Scalia and Mick Jagger, and wealthy, anonymous vacationers have descended on the 30,000-acre enclave of the Chinati Mountains. It is a place where remoteness is cherished, and where, without ever leaving the grounds, guests can spend weeks in historic adobe forts.